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In the Valley of Elah
Directed by
Paul Haggis
R
2007
2h 4m
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7.1
73%
77%
6.8
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A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
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Cast of In the Valley of Elah
Tommy Lee Jones
Hank Deerfield
Charlize Theron
Detective Emily Sanders
Susan Sarandon
Joan Deerfield
Frances Fisher
Evie
James Franco
Sergeant Carnelli
Jonathan Tucker
Mike Deerfield
Jason Patric
Lieutenant Kirklander
Josh Brolin
Chief Buchwald
Wes Chatham
Corporal Penning
Jake McLaughlin
Specialist Gordon Bonner
Mehcad Brooks
Specialist Ennis Long
Wayne Duvall
Detective Nugent
Brent Briscoe
Detective Hodge
Barry Corbin
Arnold Bickman
Greg Serano
Detective Manny Nunez
Zoe Kazan
Angie
Brent Sexton
Lt. Burke
Devin Brochu
David Sanders
Glenn Taranto
Detective Wayne
Roman Arabia
Private Robert Ortiez
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In the Valley of Elah Ratings & Reviews
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
This is Jones' show and he makes you feel a father's fear and loss in ways that are subtly heartbreaking, never melodramatic.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
[Haggis'] self-serious tone becomes wearisome, and he fails to explore how the military failed its men while clumsily laying a guilt trip at its feet.
Detroit News
Tom Long
There should be enough gut-troubling truth to In the Valley of Elah to make it transcend political squabbling.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Tommy Lee Jones gives such an amazingly nuanced, judicious, soulful and selfless performance as a military man distraught over the death of his soldier son in In the Valley of Elah that one can only wish it was in a movie that had the same virtues.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
In the Valley of Elah is an endorsement of doubt, a demand for questioning, wrapped in a package anyone can buy.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Instead of a nice, clean movie about parental regret we're forced to suffer through an unnecessary biblical metaphor stretched way past its limits of applicability.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Paul Haggis' earnest and eloquent film about the impact of the war in Iraq on U.S. soldiers, and by extension, their nation, is human-scaled. And as deep and harrowed as Jones' crevassed face.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
In the Valley of Elah rises and falls on the strength of Tommy Lee Jones' performance, which is to say that it rises to great heights, indeed.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
Elah uses a slightly plodding police procedural format as an opening to a discussion about the effect the war is having on returning soldiers. It's a lot to ask of one movie.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The haunting, heart-piercing Elah isn't perfect. It's something better: essential.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
The performances are amazing here.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
This is a sad, subtle and very good movie, designed not so much to make you think, but to make you feel the impact of large events on little lives.
The New Yorker
David Denby
[Jones] gives a great, selfless, and heartbreaking performance that completely dominates this elusive but powerful movie.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
This is undeniably a haunting movie. But don't let that scare you off. The ending, and all that leads up to it, will leave viewers devastated but deeply moved.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Tommy Lee Jones is at the top of his game as a grieving fa ther determined to uncover the disturbing truth behind his soldier son's death in Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah.
Slate
Dana Stevens
This is no doubt the first of many movies that will struggle to tell the stories of a war that's far from over, and even if the tale is imperfectly told, it commands our attention.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Thanks largely to the intricate, committed performances of Jones and Theron, it succeeds as an effective whodunit.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tamara Straus
Elah does have moments of slipping into political sermon, but for the most part it is an effective, disturbing and -- a rarity for Haggis -- subtle exploration of the stateside war story.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Haggis still has a weakness for big dramatic gestures and heavy-handed symbolism, but a somber tone and Jones' tight-lipped yet moving performance nicely undercut the tendency toward Crash-style overwrought melodrama.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
What Haggis obviously wants to explore is what the war in Iraq is doing to the humanity of our soldiers there. By approaching it indirectly, he simplifies it to a degree that I expect will anger many Iraq veterans.
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In The Valley Of Elah: I Want To Go Back
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In The Valley Of Elah: Take It To The Military Police
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